Sentence examples for patterns of ordinary from inspiring English sources

Their language approximates the patterns of ordinary speech.

Shaver (1907-1975) believed that long ago, before the advent of humans, there lived a race of titanic beings whose existence and customs can be read today in images suggested by the seemingly natural patterns of ordinary rocks.

The multitude of incidental day-to-day written matter on potsherds and papyrus, preserved by climatological quirks in Egypt, affords insights into the normal living patterns of ordinary people during the pharaonic, the Hellenistic (Ptolemaic), and the Roman periods.

It is a context that resembles some of the patterns of ordinary conversation but that is first and foremost oriented towards an overhearing audience, and hence, performed.

It celebrates the accidental beauty and patterns of the ordinary -- fire hydrants, machine buttons, dumps.

To read it now is to hear a record of a dead world, echoed – unusually – not through the language of the lettered elite, but in the speech patterns of the ordinary woman and man.

Geometric shapes emanate from the patterns and settings of ordinary life, the ponds, squares, arenas and corners in which we live and from which songs are written.

Such metabolic changes could be picked up by computer programs, adapted from those credit-card companies use to detect crime by spotting sudden and unusual spending patterns amid millions of ordinary transactions.How far away is this vision?

Possibly construction grammars (e.g., Goldberg 2003), which emphasize the coupling between the entrenched patterns of language (including ordinary phrase structure, clichés, and idioms) and their meanings and discourse function, will provide a conceptual basis for building statistical models of language that are sufficiently accurate to enable more nearly human-like parsing accuracy.

Since her early days in Serbia, Abramović has put herself under extreme physical and mental duress to jolt viewers out of ordinary patterns of thinking.

There were the quilts, which hung an inch or two away from the blank gallery walls, seeming to float, looking in almost every sense — give or take a neon brushstroke or an angular, clashing new pattern — like exalted versions of ordinary blankets, ready for someone's bed.